That’s what I would like to say to Donald Trump if I could get a word in edgewise.

Lately, though, that has been impossible. In his zeal to ensure that a day not go by when his name isn’t in the paper, this man who has been God’s gift to newspapermen and women everywhere has become unglued, railing like a Neanderthal about Rosie O’Donnell the last few weeks or, just yesterday, taking a shot at Barbara Walters.

In interviews, including one with me, Trump made sure to imply that Walters was lying when she went on “The View” yesterday to declare her unequivocal support for O’Donnell.

The statement was part of a brief speech Walters made in response to the O’Donnell-Trump feud that made headlines while Walters was on vacation.

“ABC has asked me to say this just to clarify things,” Walters said. “Donald Trump has never filed for personal bankruptcy. Several of his casino companies have filed for business bankruptcies.

“They are out of bankruptcy now,” she said, essentially retracting something O’Donnell had said back on Dec. 20 about Trump’s personal finances, igniting their feud.

Then Barbara said, “While I am clearing things up, Donald Trump also said that I am not happy with my decision to bring Rosie O’Donnell to this table.

“Nothing could be further from the truth. I have never regretted, nor do I now [sic], the hiring of Rosie O’Donnell.”

Yesterday on the phone, Trump gloated about the “bankruptcy” retraction, calling it a “total concession.”

“And, as far as her loving Rosie,” he added, “that’s not what she told me on our phone call and Barbara knows it.”

He then implied that Walters told him on the phone last week that she thinks O’Donnell’s a slob and cannot stand her.

“Slob,” of course, is one of the many words Trump has used to describe O’Donnell in recent weeks. He has also called her “fat,” an “animal,” a “bully,” “a terrible person,” “very, very unattractive,” “a loser,” “not smart,” “crude,” “ignorant” and “dangerous.”

He said she “has failed at everything she’s done,” “has a very low aptitude” and, because O’Donnell’s a lesbian, he presumes she has designs on troubled Miss USA Tara Conner.

He has generated an ocean of ink, but in his statements and name-calling he has come across as a mudslinging bully in his own right.

All this on the eve of the premiere of “The Apprentice: Los Angeles” Sunday night on NBC – the first “Apprentice” to be produced outside of New York and probably Trump’s last chance to reverse the show’s steady decline in the ratings before the network pulls the plug. (For the record: the show averaged 20.7 million viewers in season one and 9.6 million in season five.)

If heaping abuse on Rosie O’Donnell (whether she deserved it or not) is Trump’s plan for drawing attention to “The Apprentice,” then it’s not working.

By shooting off his mouth, he is shooting himself in the foot, undermining his hard-won popularity and turning off the very viewers he hopes to seduce.